A Mother's Monologue

The power of Festool

Posted on December 17, 2007January 8, 2008 by Mamapumpkin

This is right up the Hubs alley, our family handyman. Festool is a German brand of power tools that can help any contractor or clever handyman fix or build things at home. It's funny how the Germans always come up with these amazing.......click to learn what next.

Our getaway weekend

Posted on December 17, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  Last weekend was bliss for us - just Tee, the Hubs and I. We didn't have any parties (which is so unusual for us), we didn't have any planned meals with anyone outside the three of us, and we didn't have any.......click to learn what next.

My history with diet pills

Posted on December 17, 2007December 17, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

I have taken them twice in my life, both times prescribed by Doctors. The first was Xenical, which made you pass oil out. It was gross but just imagine, all that oil that you'd consumed through your mouth, coming out instead of getting.......click to learn what next.

Toddlers fascination and obsession with stickers

Posted on December 17, 2007December 17, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  Name me one who doesn't like stickers. OK. Maybe it's just MY girl who has this deep rooted addiction to the little gluey bits, but man! This is getting out of hand! I guess I should thank God it's not something else she's.......click to learn what next.

Software to help me organise and manage my business

Posted on December 17, 2007May 1, 2012 by Mamapumpkin

Yes. I've always believed that if you could pay or outsource someone else to do a job, you should do just that. Assuming you're worth something, of course. If you have a valuable business, if you value your own time, then why not.......click to learn what next.

The competitive streak in mothers

Posted on December 16, 2007December 17, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  You know those. Yes, THOSE. When they start asking you about your own child; whether he can add and subtract, whether he makes connections when he notices similar events, whether he can read, whether he can do a particular stunt, whether he.......click to learn what next.

I am a city girl

Posted on December 15, 2007December 15, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  Wow! I am really impressed that you guys know what a durian tree looks like! Me? I am so 'ulu' and hadn't a clue if my mother in law never told me. I only know how to eat - that's what she.......click to learn what next.

Can you guess what tree this is in Kong-Kong’s orchard?

Posted on December 14, 2007December 14, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

What’s on our Christmas menu?

Posted on December 14, 2007December 15, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

Being Chinese Eurasians and Christians for that matter, we naturally celebrate Christmas every year with a big Christmas dinner that has always been cooked by my mother. Every year, my mother would ask us what we would like to see on the Christmas.......click to learn what next.

Love of chillies and all things spicy!

Posted on December 14, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx That would be me. I have Indian blood. :-P I can't remember when I first started eating chillies but now I'm all for spicy food. Tee is being trained to eat it too. So far she can eat as spicy as chilli.......click to learn what next.

Tee’s Kong-Kong’s orchard

Posted on December 14, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx In Kota Bharu, Kong-Kong has a big garden full of plants and flowers but better still, he has an orchard next door that houses herbs and vegetables of all sorts and fruits! Everything that the family eats (apart from meat) is from.......click to learn what next.

Toddler brushing teeth

Posted on December 14, 2007December 14, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

At what age did your toddler start brushing her own teeth? I've been trying to get Tee to start brushing her own teeth in the mornings and I would then do a thorough brush at night before bed. It saves me half the.......click to learn what next.

Christmas shopping, here I come!

Posted on December 14, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  I have exactly 7 days more to do my Christmas shopping as we are off on a Christmas trip with the family next weekend. The problem is, I need to go alone. Without a whiny, irritating toddler in tow. Which means that.......click to learn what next.

The old lady I wanted to save

Posted on December 14, 2007December 14, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  Back in the good ol' free days when I had a lot of free time (Now? What's free time?), I'd be the gallavanting Mother Theresa wannabe looking out for people I can help. During each summer vacation, I'd be loitering the streets.......click to learn what next.

Selling gold

Posted on December 13, 2007December 13, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

Several months ago, my Mother told me to give her all my gold jewellery that I no longer wanted so she could help me sell it. Apparently gold prices were at an all time high at 65.00 per gram. Furthermore, her friend could.......click to learn what next.